Award-winning designer, storyteller, thinker.
Over 8 years of experience in transforming
brands, websites and startups.
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WIP
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Emil Tybura
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I’m a 6'2" bastard who showed up on this planet in 1997. A small city in Europe, post-soviet mental breakdowns, gray blocks, bad roads, and a river nobody swam in. My dad drove trucks, my granddad drove trucks, my great-granddad too - you get the drill. A whole bloodline of gas fumes and wasted old papas drinking vodka. Naturally, I thought I’d end up in the same cab. But life had a different, fucked up idea.
I wasn’t the most extroverted kid on the block. I was glued to a screen, wasting daylight in Los Santos, racking up hours in MMORPGs, smashing my buddies in FIFA, and customizing JDMs in Need for Speed Underground 2. While other kids chased soccer balls, I was shooting russkies in Counter Strike. I just liked having my own world and grind games.
I grew up hanging around auto shops with my old man, watching grease-stained uniforms, wall calendars with naked hookers printed on, and inhaling that holy mix of oil, grease, and cheap beer. That’s where I fell in love with cars – the bigger, louder, Redneck-er, the better. Cadillacs, Mustangs, Chevys. Anything with pipes loud enough to scare the shit out of passing grannies. My father is a Harley Davidson guy, and he definitely passed that to me. Today, I ride a 2015 Dyna Fat Bob – this shit just makes you feel like the highway and the world belongs to you.
Proud European on the outside, wanna-be hillbilly deep inside.
Somehow, against all odds, I stumbled into design. Enrolled at SWPS University for Visual Communication Design. With all the hard work - I crushed it, graduated with honors. That got me into Uniforma Studio. A place that taught me the craft for real. Ain't easy, but was worth it.
From there, I pivoted multiple times – UI design, web design, no-code builds.
Eventually, I landed at tonik.com. Startups, chaos, blood and sweat, shipping sth every day. Started as a Webflow developer, two years later became Head of Web Design.
But I was never enough – branding, websites, pitch decks, motion graphics. Typography nerd, visual comms freak. Kinda an underground spirit, usually I was against the commercial gloss. Won awards, got published in The Brand Identity, Creative Boom, shared space with institutions. Even stood in front of classrooms, lecturing design students at CDV College in Poznań.
Most of my grind isn’t even in Europe anymore. Majority of my work is for US startups – the founders backed by YCombinator, a16z, Sequoia, hf0. The Bay calls, and I answer, building and creating for the kids on Sand Hill Road.
I was born a hoarder. Old books, dusty vinyl records, magazines – shit with stories and scars. Proof that beauty isn’t clean but crooked and unapologetic.
Now, at 28, I’m a fullstack design engineer on the verge of tech and design. All night long.
Btw I wrote the whole text on my own so don't you dare accusing me of blasting a gpt-generated slop you mf.
September 06, 2025 / Torun, Poland
The night I got wasted af.
August 23, 2025 / Joshua Tree National Park, CA
The day I got engaged.
Open for new collaborations.
All inquiries: emil@tybura.com
Last update:
September 16, 2025
Type set:
Monument Grotesk, Dinamo Foundry